From: Paul A razor@meganet.net
Hi, I was searching for the system wide bash_logout and couldn’t find any documentation on it. If I create a file ~/.bash_logout file it gets executed when the user logs out but when I create a system wide /etc/bash_logout it doesn’t work. Not what the issue is since I couldn’t find anything on that.
The bash man page does not mention any global logout file...
FILES /bin/bash The bash executable /etc/profile The systemwide initialization file, executed for login shells ~/.bash_profile The personal initialization file, executed for login shells ~/.bashrc The individual per-interactive-shell startup file ~/.bash_logout The individual login shell cleanup file, executed when a login shell exits ~/.inputrc Individual readline initialization file
You could modify the one in /etc/skels but it would only apply to new users, and can be changed by them later... Or, you could chown/chmod the ~/.bash_logout and put '. ~/.bash_logout.user' in it...
JD